A Veil
As long as the spells of time, space
Delude the gullibles as rats in race.
Wars will go on within human race.
Believing that one fights for a cause.
Each to his demise without a pause.
His charges like those of a blind horse.
Such is the design of life a veil.
It starts, ends inside a triangular jail.
No one is exempted, yet all shall prevail.
Metropolitan Correctional Center
As long as the spells of time, space
Delude the gullibles as rats in race.
Wars will go on within human race.
Believing that one fights for a cause.
Each to his demise without a pause.
His charges like those of a blind horse.
Such is the design of life a veil.
It starts, ends inside a triangular jail.
No one is exempted, yet all shall prevail.
Metropolitan Correctional Center
The MCC (Metropolitan Correctional Center) is a 27-story jail in downtown Chicago. Construction began in 1971 and the facility opened in 1975. The cells were originally based on sailboat cabins, with built-in hardwood beds and desks in an effort to make them as comfortable as possible, but most of these features have since been removed. The architect, Harry Weese, used a triangular design to create easy sight-lines for the guards inside and also to keep the building pushed back from the street. A tall hedge between the sidewalk and the plaza in front of the jail isolates the building from its surroundings, and the elevated train blocks much of the view of the upper floors. The windows are beveled out to funnel natural light inside, and they have no bars but are narrow (5 inches) to prevent escape. Nonetheless, in 1985 two convicted murderers broke open a window hole and escaped down a piecework rope to street level, and in 2012 two bank robbers fashioned a rope from bedsheets and left their 17th-floor cell through a hole they made at the bottom of the window.
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